After 100+ hours in WH3 I can't believe I just figured out how to consistently check item and status effects...

So I knew that hovering over an item, spell, or skill in the Details and Skills would pull up the list of effects and/or abilities but for years I would try to mouse over those effects to get more information about what stuff does. Sometimes the menu would remain and allow me to do so, other times it would disappear before I got the chance. This drove me absolutely nuts because there just didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to why the menu stayed, or not. Well, tonight I just realized that I needed to hover over the item, spell, etc. for a certain amount of time to make the menu stay up \*\*facepalm\*\* To make it worse, there is a little blue bar that fills the bottom of the menu to give you a graphical feedback. While I'm relieved to have finally figured this out, I can't believe it took me this long! (I have no idea if it is like this in WH1-2, but I would suspect it is)